| Sorry that I did not make the question clear. What I am working on is to
| retrieve some information, e.g. news articles, from the web and feed the
| content to an application client which only knows application-specific
XML.
| Therefore, I need to read the HTML file, analyze it, strip away all
| presentation tags/contents, and convert the real content to the
| application-specific XML. Instead of writing my own HTML parser, I hope I
| can find some tool to help me or hopefully one of the XML parser can do
the
| job. I prefer Java, but I'll consider anything available.
This sounds like a job for a custom-written translation.
In particular:
* You are only interested in a specific set of tags within the HTML, which
you can convert to a particular "meaning". The rest you throw away, or
convert to some standard form.
* You presumably have some XML DTD that you want to convert to, and it sounds
like it is fairly specific for your needs.
I would recommend using a text processing environment like Perl, or
my preferred tool, Omnimark. Particularly if you want to do this
in a stable, ongoing fashion.
I would steer away from using an XML parser, and trying to build
a conversion package yourself. Let someone else do the hard work
for you ... ;-)
Cheers,
J
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James Robertson
Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
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